
The Love Haters
Katherine Center
A landlubbing video producer fakes her way into profiling a gorgeous Coast Guard swimmer in Key West.
Description
It’s a thin line between love and love-hating.Katie Vaughn has been burned by love in the past—now she may be lighting her career on fire. She has two choices: wait to get laid off from her job as a video producer or, at her coworker Cole’s request, take a career-making gig profiling Tom “Hutch” Hutcheson, a Coast Guard rescue swimmer in Key West. The catch? Katie’s not exactly qualified. She can’t swim—but fakes it that she can. Plus: Cole is Hutch’s brother. And they don’t get along. Next stop paradise!But paradise is messier than it seems. As Katie gets entangled with Hutch (the most scientifically good looking man she has ever seen . . . but also a bit of a love hater), along with his colorful Aunt Rue and his rescue Great Dane, she gets trapped in a lie. Or two.Swim lessons, helicopter flights, conga lines, drinking contests, hurricanes, and stolen kisses ensue—along with chances to tell the truth, to face old fears, and to be truly brave at last.
Books like this

A Sudden Crush
Camilla Isley
Stranded on a desert island with a grumpy stranger — and she's technically still married.
9 tropes in common

About a Girl
Lindsey Kelk
She stole her flatmate's identity — and her Hawaiian photography job — but didn't expect the insufferable journalist.
7 tropes in common

Shipped
Angie Hockman
Rivals competing for the same promotion must share a cruise ship — and the Galápagos Islands — before one of them falls.
9 tropes in common

The Dead Romantics
Ashley Poston
A ghostwriter who can literally see ghosts returns home — and falls for her editor's spirit before his body is cold.
10 tropes in common

The Spellshop
Sarah Beth Durst
A reclusive librarian flees revolution to her island home — and finds magic, jam, and a neighbour who won't leave her al
9 tropes in common

Love Uncovered: A Spicy Summer Holiday Rom-Com, Your Next Unputdownable Beach Read
Sadie Aubry
A accidentally-nudist-resort mix-up, one bare charming Frenchman, and a lie that keeps getting bigger.
10 tropes in common

Great Big Beautiful Life
Emily Henry
Two rival biographers, one island, one legendary woman's story — and feelings neither of them planned for.
7 tropes in common

Perfect Fit
Clare Gilmore
A burned-out CEO must work with her ex-best friend's brother — the one she kissed nine years ago.
10 tropes in common

Here For The Cake: A fake dating, beach wedding romance
Jennifer Millikin
Fake dating her sister's wedding frenemy: one contract, one bed, and way too many real kisses.
8 tropes in common

The Rom-Commers
Katherine Center
A rom-com-obsessed writer rewrites a cynical screenwriter's terrible script — and accidentally rewrites her own love sto
9 tropes in common

Beach Read
Emily Henry
A romance writer and a literary snob swap genres for the summer — and accidentally swap hearts too.
8 tropes in common

Book Lovers
Emily Henry
A cutthroat literary agent escapes to a small town — only to keep running into the brooding editor she can't stand.
8 tropes in common

Hate to Fake It to You: A Novel
Amanda Sellet
A fake influencer, a fake lifestyle, and a very real photographer who sees through every last lie.
8 tropes in common

All the French Men: a grumpy sunshine sweet romance
Laura Chapman
A bubbly American in France plays dating Bingo — while her secret watchdog tries not to fall for her.
7 tropes in common

Savor It (Spunes, OR, #1)
Tarah DeWitt
A grieving NYC chef and a heartbroken small-town woman fake-date their way through a summer competition.
10 tropes in common

Catnip, Claws, and Chaos: A Grumpy Sunshine Romance
Emma Jane
A chaotic pizza girl accidentally lands a job — and her heart — with her emotionally-guarded hot vet boss.
9 tropes in common

The Mistletoe Motive
Chloe Liese
A grumpy bookstore clerk and his cheerful nemesis compete for their jobs — but are they already in love online?
8 tropes in common

Paper Love
Jae
A city snob sent to rescue a failing stationery shop clashes — then falls — for the employee who despises her.
9 tropes in common

Best Hex Ever
Nadia El-Fassi
A kitchen witch cursed in love meets the best man at her best friend's wedding — and falls anyway.
11 tropes in common

The Undomestic Goddess
Sophie Kinsella
A high-powered London lawyer accidentally becomes a housekeeper — and can't even work the oven.
9 tropes in common